Smoking Treatment and Exercise Program for Underserved Populations (STEP UP)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This project proposes to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a mobile intervention to target smoking-cessation and increase physical activity among low-income persons. The intervention is called Smoking Treatment and Exercise Program for Underserved Populations (STEP UP).

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Treatments: Bupropion; Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• current household income less than twice the federal poverty guidelines (Finer & Henshaw, 2006; for instance, someone from a family of 4 must have a household income less than $48,500 to be eligible)

• currently smoke >10 cigarettes a day

• smoking for at least the past year

• can speak and write fluent conversational English

• are 18-70 years of age

• are willing to make an attempt to quit smoking and increase physical activity

Exclusion Criteria:

• inability to walk

• expected to have unstable medication regimen during the study

• currently receiving non-study behavioral treatment for smoking

• myocardial infarction in the past 6 months

• contraindication to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or bupropion with no medical clearance

• exclusive use of other forms of nicotine such as cigars, pipes, e-cigarettes, or chewing tobacco

• current pregnancy

• current imprisonment or psychiatric hospitalization